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A A UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS LEVI, OF NEW VVESTMINSTER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA.

DEVICE FOR KEEPING FISH, MEAT, FRUIT, AND OTHER PRESERl/ING CANS CLEAN WHILE BEING FILLE SPE CIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 296,023, dated April 1,1884. Application filed March 12, I383. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern,-

Be it known that I, THGMAS LEVI, of the city of New Westminster, in the district of New'Westminster and Province of British 00- lumbia, Canada, carpenter, have invented a new and useful Improvement for Keeping Fish, Meat, Fruit, and other Preserving Cans Clean While Being Filled, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is a tin case or cylinder to fit over fish, meat, fruit, or other preservingcans while being filled, so that the person filling the same neednot touch the cans with his hands. The tin ease or cylinder-is made one size larger in circumference at the top, in creasing in size to the bottom, and a size shorter in length than the preserving-can, with a rim atfthe top turned inward and downward. When the preserving-can is filled,

it is lifted by the pressure of the fingers and thumb on the case or cylinder until it touches the preserving-can inside, the object of my invention being to keep the can while being the preserving-can to remove it after it has shown in the I scribed.

THOMAS LEVI,

Witnesses:

GORDON EDWARD CoRBoULD, ALFRED SEYMOUR BLAoK.

with the preserving-can A, when applied as Fig. 0, substantially as de- 40 I filled clean, and to enable the person filling been filled withouttouching the preserving 

